EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Higher ed institutions are increasingly moving applications and workloads to the cloud. According to the 2024 CDW Cloud Computing Research Report, 88% of higher education institutions have moved more than a quarter of their applications into the cloud.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

When it comes to the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence, colleges and universities are out in front. Many schools already look to AI to support teaching, learning, research, back-office functions and even physical security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. I grew up reading more magazines than newspapers. The IU Higher Education and Student Affairs Program allowed Ph.D.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Self-sovereign identity is a new idea in the world of identity and access management, focusing on giving users more control over their digital identity.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To understand the changing esports landscape and the role of top-notch equipment in a competitive program, EdTech: Focus on Higher Education talked with Joey Gawrysiak, associate professor and executive director of esports at Syracuse University, and Danielle Rourke, national esports manager at CDW.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The challenges facing higher education are complex but well-known. In 2023, ransomware attacks against institutions of higher learning grew by a whopping 70% from the prior year.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 18, 2024

Today, Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education, announced the 83 recipients of its 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award. The 2024 recipients will be featured in the September 2024 issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Sustainably cooling a higher education data center is fraught with challenges. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, data centers alone can use up to 50 times the energy of a similarly sized commercial office building.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2025

Higher education is no stranger to managed service providers, as many institutions depend on temporary administrative staff, legal advisers and third-party partners for waste management, cleaning and food services. MSPs, in simple terms, offer personnel and resources to complement higher education institutions internal IT

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2025

Universities have been cautious adopters of artificial intelligence. As they address data-management challenges while shoring up student retention and boosting enrollment, they need clear, well-organized data to avoid garbage in, garbage out, in which poor quality input leads to faulty data output.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

The sudden push forced higher education institutions sometimes reticent instructors to adopt these tools to facilitate teaching and learning whether they were in the classroom or not. As everyone in higher education now knows, we’re not going back to pre-pandemic days.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Many higher education leaders now see growing potential for generative artificial intelligence to elevate the academic experience for students and faculty, a relatively fast evolution from the initial uncertainty about the technology’s role in higher education.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

What Wi-Fi 7 Brings to Higher Education Hybrid and online courses, robotics and virtual reality, and the sheer volume of users on a college campus all make reliable Wi-Fi critical. This new generation of Wi-Fi builds upon the existing features of Wi-Fi 6E but includes new components that improve efficiency and the user experience.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

In higher education, colleges and universities are… Yet, as technology has allowed for information to be gathered and digested more quickly and easily, the field of data analytics has grown tremendously, a trend that is expected to continue. Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates 23 percent job growth in the field by 2031.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

In higher education, AI might be a fresh topic in some corners of campus, but it’s not so new in others, especially at research institutions. But the time since has been filled with conversation, consternation, deliberation and a little bit of inspiration, as people around the world grapple with what the future of AI will look like.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

With generative artificial intelligence exploding in higher education, students, faculty and staff are eager to get their hands on these powerful tools. In December 2023, for example, Microsoft made Copilot available to all higher education students and faculty as part of Microsoft 365. They have tools available

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 2, 2024

For years, Higher education has held the dubious distinction of being among the top targets for cybercriminals. According to Sophos’s The State of Ransomware in Education 2023 report, 40 percent of ransomware attacks in higher education were due to exploited vulnerabilities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

Kendi, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient and one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, brings considerable scholarly credentials to the position. The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? Daniels Of course, I was not reading academic journals and higher education publications then. Over the years, I’ve observed at least seven (7) best practices in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education that other media outlets might be well-served to emulate: 1.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

In the modern higher education environment, resilience is the key to survival. To be resilient is to be able to stand strong against looming obstacles, face them head-on and quickly recover. At today’s colleges and universities, recruitment and retention challenges will only become more daunting as the 2025 enrollment cliff nears.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As higher education institutions continue to discover the benefits of hosting data in the cloud, these environments are becoming increasingly complex. According to the 2024 CDW Cloud Computing Research Report, 88% of higher education institutions have moved more than a quarter of their applications into the cloud.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

It refers to the blending of the physical and digital worlds, an umbrella term for virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies, all of which have been used in higher education for many years. There’s been buzz around spatial computing since Apple released its Vision Pro advanced mixed reality headset, but the concept is not new.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

Artificial intelligence is part of the future of higher education. While these tools can be great for collecting and sharing data, there’s also a much higher risk of institutions oversharing extremely valuable or personal information.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Higher education institutions are vulnerable to cyberthreats because of the valuable data they store, including student records, research and financial information. The open nature of academic environments amplifies the risk.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As higher education institutions ramp up for a new school year, many are seeing fewer students on campus than in years past.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

It was once a daunting task to manage thousands of student, staff and faculty devices in higher education. It became even more difficult as colleges embraced hybrid learning and remote work, introducing personal devices into the mix and allowing work across multiple time zones and platforms.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In a CDW Education webinar held Dec. 10, a panel of higher education technology experts met to discuss the evolving needs of college students and how technology plays a role in their experience.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Generative AI had higher education scared at first. It’s also an opportunity to tackle the main challenges in higher education.” Software Tools Rise to Meet the Generative AI Challenge in Higher Ed With generative AI, students can use ordinary-… Would students abuse this powerful creative capability?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a call to embrace three basic principles to guide our path through this time of transformative change: · Recognize higher education as a public good. · Depoliticize our colleges and universities. · Focus on outcomes that lead to jobs and support economic growth and prosperity.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting higher education institutions. Ransomware attacks in the sector, for instance, were up 70 percent in 2023, according to a report from Malwarebytes. And a Sophos survey suggests that the average recovery cost can top $1 million per incident.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

The school, regarded as a higher education innovator in immersive learning, notes that the artificial intelligence-powered instructors are trained from teachers lectures and course notes. AI has been hailed a potentially powerful tool in higher educations arsenal, particularly when it comes to

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Higher education institutions are facing what seems to be a universal problem: They need to do more with less. Budgets are being tightened across the country as enrollment struggles to return to pre-pandemic levels and government funds made available during the pandemic dry up.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As we enter a new year, the enrollment cliff that has been looming will finally reach higher education.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

It’s no secret that higher education institutions must continue prioritizing cybersecurity in the face of new and emerging threats. What’s less obvious is which threats to focus on, particularly because not all threats are readily apparent. Cryptojacking is one such threat that’s rapidly emerging, but it isn’t new.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It has been a very solid approach to achieve our goal of eradicating the lack of role models and obstacles to achieve higher education of our Latino students,” says Diaz-Claisse.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

There’s plenty of guidance from schools that already have policies on generative artificial intelligence, including dozens of examples from across the higher education landscape. Only 23% of respondents indicated…

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Cybersecurity is always top of mind for higher education IT administrators, and for good reason. More than 60% of higher education institutions got hit by ransomware attacks in the past year, according to Sophos. At the same time, schools are shorthanded.

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